Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 10:00 -0400, sean darcy wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> [...]> >>> <rant> >>> Part of the problem is that all the above tools are clearly aimed at >>> people who know what they're doing. Those of us uninterested in a career >>> in multimedia technology are liable to be completely lost when >>> struggling with any of the (incomplete and ambiguous) manuals, not to >>> mention the baroque syntax of the command-line options. Why are there no >>> "multimedia conversion for dummies" tools in Linux as there are in >>> Windoze? >>> </rant> >>> >>> Anyway, my question is this: does anyone have a useful recipe for this >>> kind of thing? >>> >>> And for extra credit: how about converting FLV (Flash video)? >>> >>> poc >>> >> First, I agree with your rant. What the world needs is a media recipe wiki. >> >> But I'd try again with ffmpeg. It has the most active development and >> user group. The helpful users make up for the lousy docs. > > Good to know :-) > >> 1. Do you have a very recent version of ffmpeg? I'd urge you to use svn, >> but at least 0.5.1. > > It's the standard Fedora repo version: > ffmpeg-0.5-5.20091026svn.fc12.x86_64 so possibly not. > rpmfusion has ffmpeg-0.6-0.3.20100429svn >> 2. ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.avi , should >> work if source mkv is in mpeg-4 and mp3. > > It's H.264 and AC-3: > > Duration: 01:32:04.57, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A > Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc > Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16 > Well AC-3 should work in your dvd, so try: ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec copy output.avi sean -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
